Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Canada · CC BY 2.0Results around Rimbey lean low: 2 of 3 schools in the lower two fifths in Alberta
The 3 km around Rimbey counts 1 elementary school, 2 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade, 823 students between them.
How Rimbey’s schools do on Alberta’s tests
The Provincial Achievement Tests in Grades 6 and 9: each school against every school in Alberta.
Its School Grade is B−: it compares these results with the other towns of the province.
The area’s schools by fifth of the province
Each school’s band is the average of its measures’ fifths. The mark shows an even fifth of the area’s schools.
| Measure | Schools | Middle here | Alberta |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAT: acceptable standard | 3 | 64% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 3 | 12% | 13% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is the standard of excellence: 12% here, against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Rimbey Junior Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 64% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Rimbey Christian SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 65% · Excellence 10% | Fourth fifth |
| Rimbey Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 56% · Excellence 13% | Fourth fifth |
Alberta Education and Childcare, PAT multiyear school results (core courses pooled). Alberta’s own notes: breaches in 2021–22, wildfires in 2022–24, the January 2026 sitting cancelled, pilot-curriculum students excused. Open Government Licence – Alberta.
Schooling in English and French around Rimbey
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
Schooling in French isn’t on offer here.
Section 23 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives French-speaking parents the right to French-language schooling for their children, through the French-language boards.
Who runs Rimbey’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
System by system: English public 3 and independent or other 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Rimbey
The neighbourhood school
No application round, no lottery: the address fixes the school, and the board handles the paperwork.
Independent schools
Independent schools choose their students and charge fees, with part of their costs paid by the province when they qualify.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 4 schools in and around Rimbey
High schools within reach of Rimbey
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Counting out to 15 km, there are 2: 1 independent and 1 English public. Closest of all: Woodlands Adventist School (12 km).
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodlands Adventist SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | – | Independent | – | 30 | 12 km |
| Bluffton SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Wolf Creek School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 138 | 13 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraser | 3,973 | 18 | 6,837 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| … | |||||
| Elmwood | 2,522 | 52 | 21,442 | 2 | 0.1 km |
| Satoo | 2,517 | 37 | 16,393 | 0 | 0.1 km |
| Ekota | 2,509 | 42 | 18,190 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Rosedale | 2,507 | 62 | 28,170 | 1 | 0.2 km |
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
Of the 126 others, 108 count more schools. A French-language school is within reach in 45 of the 127.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What isn’t here. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
- Bands, not ranks. Each result is placed in a fifth of Alberta’s schools on the same measure; a school’s band averages its fifths. Alberta suppresses small groups, so no school is ranked to the place.
- Boards and systems. Public and Catholic boards are both publicly funded here, in English and in French; an independent school answers to no board.
- The year. As the province lists them in 2025/26.
- The kinds of school. Elementary and secondary come from the grades each school offers; a school offering both counts as all-grade.
- Which schools count. Inside Rimbey’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
Questions about schools in Rimbey
Is there a French-language school in Rimbey?
There is none in or near Rimbey (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
How many schools are there in Rimbey?
Every one of them, 4, is inside the town.
How do I get a place at a school in Rimbey?
Start with the board for the system you want; your address sets the school.
Sources: Alberta Education and Childcare, school enrolment 2025/26 (Open Government Licence – Alberta) · map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).